# How important is lip gloss / lipstick?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-lip-gloss-lipstick/506526>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 15, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-lip-gloss-lipstick/506526 "2009-08-15T15:56:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-lip-gloss-lipstick/506526/21 "2009-08-16T15:21:33Z")

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> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> I second the love for their cuticle cream as well. All of my fingernails tend to crack and peel, and using the cuticle cream is the best solution I’ve found. Plus, it smells absolutely delicious.

Oh yes, the Burt’s Bees cuticle cream is awesome. I wash my hands a lot because I work in a medical center, and regular use of that keeps my cuticles looking presentable and my nails much better than they would be. I stopped using it earlier this year and my nails got so brittle that I put clear polish on (normally I use no polish and my nails can get decently long) just to make them look a little better and let them get some sort of length without breaking.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-lip-gloss-lipstick/506526/22 "2009-08-16T23:08:36Z")

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My attitude towards make up is, it’s fine if your covering up things like a blemish or to even out a blotch on a skin but that’s where it should end

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